“The Sacred Defense Week is enriched with the names and memories of the great martyrs. Their sincere sacrifices and that of other [warriors] brought victory for the Iranian nation, and their pure blood recorded the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic on the face of history,” Ayatollah Khamenei wrote in a message on Thursday.

Noting that wherever there are sincere efforts, there will be victory and pride, the Leader said, “This is the great lesson of those models of self-sacrifice.”

“And the Iranian nation will never forget this honorable legacy, inshallah,” he added.

Iraq waged a war against Iran more than one and a half years after the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which toppled the US-backed Pahlavi regime.

During the war, Iraq was fully supported by the U.S. and its allies, while the same countries denied Iran access to foreign arms.

Each year, on the first day of the national sacred defense week, which marks the beginning of the imposed war, Iran holds military parades and puts on display latest domestically-manufactured arms and military equipment across the country as a show of might against the backdrop of the US-led arms embargoes.

Marking the beginning of this year’s Sacred Defense Week on Wednesday, hundreds of vessels from Basij volunteer forces, held a naval parade in the Persian Gulf, alongside a number of vessels from the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy.

More than 650 naval Basij vessels, including local fishermen’s boats, along with a number of speedboats belonging to the IRGC Navy, took part in the exercise, which was overseen by Commander of the IRGC Navy Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri.

The participating vessels were reportedly only a small part of the large number of vessels that have been organized in the form of the naval Basij fleet.

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Delivering a speech in the ceremony of marking the start of the Sacred Defense Week and honoring one million veterans of Sacred Defense (referring to the 8-year war imposed by the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussain against Iran in which Iran defended its sovereignty and soil by sacrifice and resilience), Ebrahim Raisi said: “Ashura ritual was a new start, and we know many famous forerunners by Ashura event who conveyed the message of Imam Hussain’s uprising.”

He described praising Holy Defense veterans as the manifestation of enlightenment towards martyrs’ memory, message, and goal, saying, “The goal of this praise is that nobody falls into the well of ignorance”.

Raisi went on to say, “The key to the immortality of the name of martyrs and veterans of the Holy Defense and Shrine Defenders and those who defend the principles of the Islamic Revolution is the fact that these dear ones went to the Heavens themselves”.

He continued stating that many wars and battles have taken place throughout history and in different parts of the world, but we need to see which of them was holy, adding, “The system of the Islamic Republic has become holy because it is based on religion, teachings of religion, the Book and Traditions”.

Raisi pointed out, “In addition, the deeds of all individuals and sections must be holy in this system, and therefore everyone in his position must serve sincerely so that his deeds are also holy”.

The President said, “The permanence of our martyrs was due to the fact that they sacrificed everything for God, and that is why our late Imam Khomeini (RA), with that great personality, when came across them, said, ‘I feel inferior and I envy your position’”.

Raisi said, “Everything that becomes holy becomes immortal, and therefore the way, message and method of the martyrs have forever immortalized in history”.

He noted, “It has to become clear to the society that this country is managed by a jurist who does not tell the people to go towards a destination, but he has reached the destination himself and calls others to the destination”.

The President stated, “Today we are facing modern ignorance which is equipped with a lot of science, technology, weapons and financial power and can impose the ugliest deeds as a value on society and in fact imposes its resources on the world. By praising martyrs, we can remove the mask from the face of this modern ignorance”.

He continued, “I congratulate all the families of the martyrs, because the day of martyrdom of their children and loved ones is the birthday of their character, characters that shine in the heavens forever and remove ignorance from the world”.

Raisi called the wave of awakening in the region due to the blood of the martyrs and said, “I hope that the soul of martyrs pray for us so that we can successfully work to solve the country’s problems”.

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